Amusement devices: toys – Convertible from – or serving as diverse article – Including sounding toy
Patent
1988-11-04
1990-01-09
Yu, Mickey
Amusement devices: toys
Convertible from, or serving as diverse article
Including sounding toy
446265, 446489, 446418, 215228, A63H 500
Patent
active
048924997
ABSTRACT:
A novelty grinder includes a grinder base with a pair of guide channels extending across its upper surface and intersecting near its center. The guide channels are preferably perpendicular to one another, and dovetailed in transverse cross-section. A pair of shuttle members or shoes is slidably disposed in the guide channels, each shoe being adapted for reciprocating translational movement in one of the channels. The shoes are preferably trapezoidal in transverse cross-section, and wider at their widest points than the widths of the channels at their upper edges. Alternatively, the channels may be straight-sided and provided with axially extending grooves for receiving pins disposed on the shoes for retaining the shoes in the grooves and preventing their removal in a direction transverse to the direction of their reciprocating movement. Such grooves may have a T-slot configuration for receiving a T-pin on the shoes. The T-slot may be on a side, or on the bottom, of a channel. A crank is pivotally connected to each shoe for causing the shoes to reciprocate when the crank is rotated about the grinder base. Serrations in the channels are engaged by ribs on the shoes to create a washboard sound effect when the shoes reciprocate. The grinder base may be mounted on a jar or other container.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3085709 (1963-04-01), Klein
patent: 3214862 (1965-11-01), Price
patent: 3478932 (1969-11-01), Phillips
patent: 3665639 (1972-05-01), Knox
patent: 4003159 (1977-01-01), Piper
Ayyoubi Luay
Beck Theresa R.
Shull William E.
Yu Mickey
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